by AF themes
4.8 (30 reviews)
DarkNews Rank #599
DarkNews is an advanced dark WordPress theme that's appropriate for a news, blog and magazine website. The theme includes a range of free starting ...
Rank
#599
Downloads
137.8K
Version
3.5.7
Rating
4.8
30 reviews
Description
DarkNews is an advanced dark WordPress theme that's appropriate for a news, blog and magazine website. The theme includes a range of free starting pages that can be imported with a single click to create a great news portal. With 9+ custom widgets and widget areas, the theme is fully widgetized, allowing users to control site content. It also has a light and dark color mode, so you can view articles and blog posts in a trendy way. It also contains a number of helpful customizer options for building a visually appealing news site. You can configure it as you like to see how it looks before making any improvements using the live customizer. It's compatible with Elementor, Gutenberg blocks and RTL, as well as the WooCommerce plugin, which enables you to blend an online shop with our newspaper theme. The theme is ideal for a news, journal, magazine, publishing, or review site, as well as blogging. It's well-designed to bring the website to the top of search engines, and people will get outstanding support from the team if they have any problems when using it.
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Theme Details
- Version
- 3.5.7
- Last Updated
- Aug 28, 2026
- Requires WP
- 4.0
- PHP Version
- 5.0+
- Author
- AF themes
Tags
Block Editor Patterns
Block Editor Styles
Blog
Custom Background
Custom Colors
Custom Header
Custom Logo
Custom Menu
Entertainment
Featured Images
Flexible Header
Footer Widgets
Four Columns
Full Width Template
Grid Layout
Left Sidebar
News
One Column
Post Formats
Right Sidebar
RTL Language Support
Theme Options
Threaded Comments
Three Columns
Translation Ready
Two Columns
Wide Blocks
Frequently Asked Questions
The DarkNews WordPress theme has 1,000+ active installations on WordPress.org.
DarkNews holds a 4.8 out of 5 star rating based on 30 reviews on WordPress.org.
The DarkNews theme is created by AF themes and published on the official WordPress.org theme directory.
The latest version of the DarkNews theme is 3.5.7. It was last updated on August 28, 2026.
Yes. DarkNews is a free WordPress theme available to download and install from the WordPress.org theme directory.